Day 11 Forte position 34° 18.15 S 172° 11.2E

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Sat 9 Apr 2011 00:02
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NZT ~ Pigs can fly philosophy!
 
Well we had a great sail yesterday albeit power assisted to take advantage of the weather forecast over the next few days we are now well past North Cape and Cape Reinga, and we are heading towards LHi the sea swell past northern New Zealand is quite large but mostly benign it just the aftermath of the winds that were present prior to our departure, everything is working well apart from a couple of gremlin's but nothing that canât be fixed on our arrival in Melbourne. We are looking at present to be passing just low of Lord Howe in about 5 days and from there will head to the east coast and follow it down with a number of places we can hide in if the weather is not looking good ahead. The game plan as such (which is as difficult to predict as the weather in this part of the world!) is to use the southern current flow down the east coast to speed us on our way, avoid the low pressure that is on its way earlier next week and using the two high pressures that are coming after to sail straight on through the Bass strait and into Melbourne before anymore low pressure systems appear... mind you Iâm not going to bet my car on it! but you never know....watch this space!
 
On a brighter note Bruceâs supply of Paihia Bombs seem to be doing the job and are keeping the wolf from the door or should I say the chunder from the fish!
 
As always I will keep everybody updated.
 

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